He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives.ĭetermined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself at odds with the local slave owners as well as her own father. And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty.
It is December 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page. Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place.and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman.
INTO THE WILDERNESS BOOKS CRACK
Inside, there is bumping to the spine and a dry crack between the front endpaper and the title page however the rest of the book is tightly bound and the pages are clean and unmarked. Homestead, a book of short stories written under the pseudonym Rosina Lippi Green, was published by Delphinium.Into the Wilderness by Sara Donatiis a 692-page hardcover published by Bantam Books, 1998. (Aug.) FYI: This novel is Donati's debut under her own name. The many subplots are skillfully interwoven, and the author's sheer stamina commands respect but the novel is complicated, not complex, overstuffed with familiar, featherweight themes. Nathaniel is the only thoroughly admirable white male in the huge cast-upbringing having triumphed over blood-and no person of color has flaws. Worse, the characters are color-by-numbers cartoons.
Then the charm falters as their adventures are padded with details that embroider without embellishing. At first they are an enchanting couple, shooting at bad guys and making athletic love in unlikely woodsy settings. Nathaniel wants Judge Middleton's land, too, for his adoptive people-but, unlike Todd, he also wants Lizzie for herself. One look at rugged Nathaniel Bonner, a Scotsman raised by Mohawks (they call him Between-Two-Lives), and Lizzie scuttles her feminist disdain for marriage and her father's calculations. Richard Todd and fulfill both men's ambitions for property. When Elizabeth Middleton, a proud spinster of 29, arrives in upstate Paradise, N.Y., after a sheltered life in England with her titled aunt, she means to live with her father, Alfred, a judge, and her wastrel brother, Julian, and teach school. Alas, Donati offers less wit and more cant than her celebrated precursor in a hefty volume that is politically correct to a fare-thee-well, suggesting that the author hoped single-handedly to reverse all race and gender bias. Claire Fraser, Gabaldon's time-traveling physician heroine, even makes a cameo appearance as a battlefield surgeon. Epic in ambition, heaving-bosomed and lavish with pioneer life, Donati's debut inevitably invites comparison to the Revolutionary War-era romances of Diana Gabaldon.
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